A British businessman has been jailed for 20 years after bludgeoning his fiancee to death in a Paris hotel room.

Ian Griffin, 45, murdered Kinga Legg, 36, at the five star Bristol in May 2009.

The couple had been married in Monaco, but Griffin was cheating on Ms Legg with 34-year-old Tracy Baker, at the same time.

Ms Baker, had a child with Griffin after he was released on bail last year.

Griffin was sentenced at the Paris Assizes where the jury verdict was read out tonight by Judge Didier Safar, Sky News reports.

Ms Legg, a Pole who was briefly married to an English civil servant called Peter Legg and who also used her maiden name Wolf, regularly told friends about her 'abusive relationship' with Griffin.

Affair: Griffin was cheating on Ms Legg (Image: MEN)

The couple were briefly arrested in 2008 after Legg attacked Griffin with a knife, but there were no charges.

Legg's parents believe Griffin was attracted to their daughter because of her fortune, which she had built through a tomato export company.

Griffin, who had owned tanning salons and a chain of gadget stores, was declared bankrupt in 2006, although he claims to have since rebuilt his fortune.

Ms Legg ran a successful firm exporting more than 300million tomatoes a year from Poland to major companies such as McDonald's, Tesco and Carrefour.

Her company, Vegex, had a UK base in Oxshott, Surrey, where she and Griffin rented a £3million executive mansion.

In the days after Ms Legg's death, police on both sides of the Channel followed a trail of credit card transactions to Cheshire, where the search for Griffin ended a week later in woodland outside Macclesfield in a flimsy tent.

Millionaire: Kinga Legg was a successful businesswoman (Image: MEN)

After the verdict was read out, Ms Legg's brother, Marek Wolf, said: "I need to say it was the correct verdict."

Referring to the legal process which started when Griffin was extradited to France in 2011, Mr Wolf, added: "I'm glad after three years the trial is finished but nobody can give my sister back to me or my parents."

An inconsolable Ms Baker left the court building with out commenting, accompanied by members of Griffin's family